Skirt hangers



A. SINGER SKIRT HANGERS July 31, 1962 Filed Aug. 31, 1959 INVENTOR. ALBERT SINGER fww 3,947,197 SKIRT HANGERS Albert Singer, 820 West End Ave., New York, N.Y. Filed Aug. 31, 1959, Ser. No. 837,070 1 Claim. (Cl. 223-96) The present invention relates generally to a new and useful clothes hanger, and it has particular relation to a. hanger designed especially for hanging skirts on factory racks, delivery trucks and the like to prevent them from wrinkling or falling on the floor.

Many types of hangers have been designed for holding skirts, especially in the wearers home, but such hangers are entirely too elaborate, bulky and expensive for use in the dress industry where large quantities are re quired for use temporarily, as for for example, when shipments are being trucked from plant to storage, delivered to customers and the like. At the present time, the industry is using a cut-out cardboard hanger, which is cheap and expendable, but fails to hold its skirts under severe delivery conditions. The conventional skirt hangers are also too expensive, and those having springpressed clamping elements fail to hold a skirt under the heavy jostling of ordinary factory movement and shipping conditions.

The disadvantages hereinabove set forth have been obviated by the present invention which provides a very cheap and durable hanger that is capable of holding a skirt intact under the most severe conditions, and is so inexpensive that it is expendable, capable of being used to ship the skirt to a customer without requiring a deposit or its return.

One object of the invention is to provide a simple, eiiicient and durable skirt hanger that is so inexpensive and light in weight that it may be shipped with its skirt without requiring a deposit or its return.

Another object of the invention is the provision of a skirt hanger that has slidable hanger members, and which are manually bendable into a given position and will maintain such position as long as desired.

A further object of the invention is to provide a simple, extremely thin and nonbulky skirt hanger that takes up less room on its support than the skirt hanging therefrom.

Other and further objects and advantages of the invention reside in the detailed construction of the hanger, which result in simplicity, economy and efficiency, and which will be apparent from the following detailed description, wherein a preferred form of embodiment is shown, reference being had to the accompanying drawings for illustrative purposes, wherein like numerals indicate like parts, in which:

FIGURE 1 is a perspective view of a skirt hanger made in accordance with principles of the invention;

FIGURE 2 is a side elevational view of one of the clamping elements of FIGURE 1, the same having been taken substantially along the line 22, looking in the direction of the arrows;

FIGURE 3 is a bottom plan view of the clamping element shown in FIGURE 2, the same having been taken substantially along the line 3-3 of FIGURE 1, looking in the direction of the arrows;

FIGURE 4 is a side elevational view of the other clamping element, the same having been taken substantially along the line 4-4 of FIGURE 1, looking in the direction of the arrows; and

FIGURE 5 is a bottom plan view of the clamping element shown in FIGURE 4, the same having been taken substantially along the line 55 of FIGURE 1, looking in the direction of the arrows.

Referring now to the drawing, and particularly to FIG- URE 1 thereof, there is shown a Wire skirt hanger 10,

3,47,l97 Patented July 31, 1962 having a horizontally extending member consisting of two laterally extending pieces of wire 11 and 12, which have their adjacent ends twisted, as indicated at 13 to form a conventional vertically extending neck member having a hooked end 16 by which the samemay be hung on a horizontal clothes pole.

A pair of U-shaped clamping members 21 and-22 are adapted to be mounted slidably bne each on the horizontal wire members 11 and 12, respectively. Each of the U-shaped clamping members 21 and 22 is of an integral construction having an integrally formed circular bearing surface 23 centrally of its base section. The circular bearing surface 23 is formed by cutting a pair of spaced slits in the 'U-shaped base section. The middle portion 23 between said slits is bent arcuately into a semi-circle in one direction while the lateral portions 3-1 and 32 are bent arcuately in the opposite direction, forming a pair of spaced semi-circular'bearing surfaces of a. cross-sectional size adapted to be mounted slidably on said horizontal wire members 11 and 12. Obviously, if

r the clamping members 21 and 22 are slidably mounted on the horizontal wires 11 and 12, respectively, they will also be movable pivotally.

Referring now to FIGURES 2 and 3, it will be noted that the pendant arm 26 of the member 21 is longer than the pendant arm 27, and is provided with a pair of inwardly extending diverging slits intermediate its lower free end, and that its lateral sections are then bent inwardly, as indicated at 28, at an angle of ninety degrees to provide a pair of laterally spaced teeth or skirt penetrating projections 3334. The opposite and shorter pendant arm 27 of the member 21 is provided with a similar pair of diverging slits extending inwardly from its lower free end, and its medial section is then bent inwardly at an angle of ninety degrees, as indicated at 29, to provide a single tooth or skirt penetrating projection 36. It will be noted that the laterally spaced skirt penetrating projections 33-34 are in a horizontal plane spaced vertically from the single tooth or skirt penetrating projection 36.

Referring now to FIGURES 4 and 5, there is shown in greater detail the construction of the clamping memher 22 having pendant clamping arms 43 and 44. The pendant arm 43 of the clamping member 22 is longer than its pendant arm 44. The lower end of the arm 43' is provided with a pair of diverging slits extending inwardly from its lower free end, and its medial section is then bent inwardly at an angle of ninety degrees, as indicated at 46, to provide a single tooth or skirt penetrating projection 47. The opposite and shorter pendant arm 44 of the member 22 is provided with a pair of inwardly extending diverging slits intermediate its lower free end, and then its lateral sections are bent inwardly at an angle of ninety degrees, as indicated at 49, to provide a pair of laterally spaced teeth or skirt penetrating projections 51 and 52.

It will be noted that the clamping members 21 and 22 are mounted on their respective wire members 11 and '12 differently, i.e. one is positioned reversely with respect of the other, as best shown in FIGURE 1. In this arrangement the two spaced projections 33 and 44 of the member 21 extend oppositely to the two spaced projections 51 and 52 of the member 22. It has been found that this arrangement gives added holding strength against the jostling the skirt takes in being moved from place to place.

The clamping members 21 and 22 are made of any suitable thin, light and inexpensive metal, preferably tin, aluminum and the like, which is soft and bendable without having any residual spring action. When the two pendant arms of the clamping members are pinched manually together over a section of a skirt, the spaced K3 pair of penetrating projections and the single projection will pierce the skirt from opposite sides to firmly secure the same therebetween. It will be noted that the pair of spaced projections are in a different horizontal plane from the single projection 36. Therefore, they do not interlock. This arrangement permits them to pierce a folded skirt from its opposite sides in different planes, thereby securely fastening the skirt therebetween. The skirt penetrating projections will remain in their pinched positions indefinitely and until they are manually spread and withdrawn when it is desired to remove the skirt therefrom.

After the clamping members 21 and 22 are each positioned over their respective laterally extending wires 11 and 12 of the horizontal member of the hanger, the extreme ends of said wire are enlarged slightly, as indicated at 37, in any suitable manner as by peening or placing a drop of solder thereon, to prevent said members 21 and 22 from sliding off if the hanger 10 is tipped out of its normal horizontal position.

Although I have shown and described in detail but one form which the invention may assume, it will be readily apparent to those skilled in the art that various modifications may be made therein Without departing from the spirit thereof or from the scope of the appended claim.

What I claim is:

A skirt hanger comprising a pair of wires whose adjacent ends are twisted together and bent to form a hanging hook, the other ends of said wires extending in opposite directions to provide horizontal support wires, and

(a) a spaced pair of inverted U-shaped clamping members having a base section and a pair of pendant arms,

(b) each clamping member having an integrally formed bearing member in its base section slidably receiving one of said horizontal support Wires,

(0) one arm of each clamping member being longer than the other arm,

(d) one of said arms having spaced projections and the other arm having a single projection in a different plane from the projections of the first arm,

(e) said projections extending inwardly and being of sufficient length to overlapwhen penetrating a skirt secured clampingly therebetween.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 693,122 Dorsey Feb. 11, 1902 695,924 Grotenhuis Mar. 25, 1902 893,298 Beatty July 14, 1908 2,908,431 Campbell Oct. 13, 1959 

